Afternoon's Book Club Featuring Trent Dalton

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Event: 01/04/2020

Listen to Trent Dalton explain the secrets behind his novel

At a time when face to face book club meets ups are on hold, it's good to know that ABC radio's Afternoons With Kat Feeney can help keep avid readers engaging about their favourite page-turners.

The April Afternoon's book club will feature, Brisbane award-winning author and journalist, Trent Dalton to discuss his debut and highly prized novel Boy Swallows Universe as he takes questions and comments from everyone playing at home.

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For devoted fans of this Brisbane-based book about love, family, surviving and thriving, finding your dreams and realising them amidst a backdrop of crime, violence, alcoholism and incarceration, this is your chance to ask those burning questions directly to the author.

Did you want to know things like, "Who inspired the character of Eli Bell?", "How much of the novel is based on real-life events? "Where did the idea for the blue wren come from", well, here is your chance.

So tune in and join in the conversation on Wednesday April 1 at 1pm, Trent Dalton will talk through the book. Simply pop in the talkback number in your speed dial: 1300 222 612 and tune into Afternoons with Kat Feeney on 612AM, online or via the ABC listen app.